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Book or Pamphlet

March of the Slaves

Date: 
Description: Two illustrations depicting the capture by Europeans of Africans who were taken away on ships to be slaves. The caption is in French.
Photograph

Crewman in Bunk

Date: 06 1942
Description: A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta relaxing in his bunk while reading a book in Spanish and smoking a cigarette. The man is on ...
Photograph

Smiling Wounded Soldier

Date: 1945
Description: Second Lieutenant Louis Connick smiling for a photograph aboard USS Samaritan, a hospital ship. He is lying in a bed and holding a cigarette. He is ...
Print

Red Star Line Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 18 1908
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a framed illustration of a white-bearded man in profile holding a pipe and turning away to look at a sai...
Photograph

Major McArdle

Date: 1918
Description: Major McArdle with two British officers in uniform on board the launch "Wisconsin." All three men are smoking cigarettes. Another ship and a shoreline can ...
Print

Menu for Farewell Dinner on Board R.M.S. Volendam

Date: 01 22 1939
Description: Exterior and page from the interior of the menu for the farewell dinner aboard the R.M.S. Volendam, with party streamers and dinner guests in formal...
Print

R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam Assembly Dinner Menu

Date: 05 04 1948
Description: Assembly Dinner menu from the Holland-America Line R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, with revelers in dress suits and party frocks walking and holding drinks ...
Photograph

Frederick Layton at Sea

Date: 1891
Description: Frederick Layton standing on deck smoking a cigar while at sea in a Kodak #2 camera portrait by T.W. Ingersoll from St. Paul, Minnesota. The photographer's...
Map or Atlas

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish Territories According to the Treaty

Date: 1783
Description: This map is hand-colored and shows the boundaries of British, Spanish, and the newly recognized American claims, as well as the fishing rights granted to F...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland: With Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

Date: 1755
Description: Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina, and New Jersey. It shows borders, boundary lines, some Native American land, counties, cities, towns...
Photograph

Southern Port

Date: 1935
Description: The funnels (smokestacks) of two large steamships are visible over warehouse buildings on a pier of a southern American port. Both ships have nautical flag...

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